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The WordPress plugin competition at WLTC is now open for voting.

Things To Consider When Using WordPress as a CMS. Would love to see more articles like this.

I went on a nostalgia trip and started browsing through my Amazon order history.  My first order with Amazon was on July 6th 1997.  Damn, time flies.  I’ve chewed through a lot of books since then.  Who among you are Amazon old schoolers?  Do you remember when Amazon used to send free schwag for Christmas?

The new A List Apart for survey is up.

I like Cuil. There’s just something very intuitive about the interface that fels comfortable to me, but I’m not sure how to articulate it. And it’s fast! Going to try it out as my default search engine for the next few days. Downside? Sometimes the images seem completely random, and I do see some spam in the index.

Version 2.6 of WordPress MU is now out! WordPress MU is the multi blog version of the popular blogging software WordPress. It’s the engine behind WordPress.com and many other blogging sites.

This version of WordPress MU is based on WordPress 2.6. There’s a long and interesting WordPress.org post on the new features in 2.6 so get over there to read up on post revisions, “Press This!”, Gears, Theme Previews, and the long list of developers who helped make this release a reality.

Some of the new features in this release of MU:

1. Version number is 2.6 rather than 1.6 because it just makes sense to synchronise the major version numbers.
2. Signup page now has a nonce which should help in the fight against spammers, for a short while anyway.
3. Redirecting to the signup page for 404s and for unknown blogs is not enabled by default. Check out wp-config-sample.php for instructions.
4. “allowed_themes” filter, much like the plugins filtered added previously.
5. New functions: get_id_from_blogname(), is_main_blog().
6. get_blog_details() can now take a blogname as well as a blog_id.
7. Custom first posts didn’t always work. Now they do.
8. Blognames in the “Add blog” form in wpmu-blogs.php are now sanitized.
9. Added “pre_site_option_*” and “site_option_*” filters like the similar option filters.
10. Meta fields will be passed on signup again.
11. Added an “admin_header_navigation” filter so the top right navigation in the backend can be customised.
12. The signup page uses “blogname” instead of “blog_id” to avoid confusion with the global variable of the same name. Plugins will break if not updated!

That last change is quite a major one. If you have any plugins that interact with the signup form they will need to be updated!

This release also addresses some security issues spotted by Alexander Concha and Juan Galiana. Thank you both for alerting us and for your patience while this release was prepared!

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The release of the trailer for the upcoming Watchmen movie prompted me to dig through my old comic books.  Look at what I found:

That’s issue number one of Watchmen. I bought that back in 1986 when I was thirteen. Almost twenty-three years later, Dr. Manhattan is finally coming to the big screen.

I just got another Japanese WordPress book in the mail. I can’t wait to visit there later in the year. P.S. I’m not sure who this is from, so if you’re the person who sent it email me.

Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP. Pretty fascinating stuff.

The Single Malt Scotch Episode - Episode #509. I was on Wine Library TV with the inimitable Gary Vaynerchuk talking not about wine, but scotch. Much trouble ensues. Check it out! I ended up leaving my laptop at Gary’s store and had to go back to Jersey later that day. I took a few moments to browse around and discovered an awesome cheese called Ombra.